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Associate Professor of Finance & RepublicBank Fellow

Mays Business School

Texas A&M University 

Office: (979) 845-3015

Email: xliu@mays.tamu.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Corporate Culture, Corporate Governance, Initial Public Offerings, and Innovation

PUBLICATIONS

The Role of Trust in Information Processing: Evidence from Security Analysts (with Vineet Bhagwat), May 2020

The Accounting Review 95 (3), 59-83

Can Corporate Income Tax Cuts Stimulate Innovation? (with Julian Atanassov), August 2020

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 55 (5), 1415-1465

Corruption Culture and Corporate Misconduct, November 2016

Journal of Financial Economics, 122 (2), 307-327

 Local Underwriter Oligopolies and IPO Underpricing (with Jay R. Ritter), December 2011

Journal of Financial Economics 102 (3), 579-601

The Economic Consequences of IPO Spinning (with Jay R. Ritter), May 2010

Review of Financial Studies 23 (5), 2024-2059

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WORKING PAPERS

Competition, Capital Market Feedback, and Earnings Management: Evidence from Economic Deregulation (with Jongsub Lee)

Shared Culture and Technological Innovation: Evidence from Corporate R&D Teams (with Tristan Fitzgerald) 

Do Companies use Mergers to Avoid Taxes? (with Julian Atanassov and Vineet Bhagwat)

CEO Saving Culture, Cash Holdings and Shareholder Value (with Chen Lin)

Cultural Origins and CEO Incentive Contracts